The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusImlay is an unincorporated town in Pershing County, Nevada, United States. It has an elementary school, a general store, a post office, and a trading post. As of the 2010 census, the population was 171. It is a nearly abandoned railroad town, named for a nearby mine or for the civil engineer who surveyed the town circa 1907. Its most notable feature is a series of strange buildings called Thunder Mountain Monument. These structures were built as a monument to Native American culture by a World War II veteran who called himself Thunder. Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? public radio show featured Imlay as the "Town of the Week" on its December 5, 2009, show. They mentioned Thunder Mountain Mon…
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 171 to 210 (+23%). Half of its homes were built before 1975.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Imlay yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Imlay’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Imlay’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewInformal Remarks of the President…, 1938: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Imlay, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Informal Remarks of the President in (1938) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.